Is it me or ....

[Sebba]

.....does there seem to be a lot more white cars for sale?

[RazerSauber]

Isn't white the most common colour for new cars? I suspect it's probably cheapest and people only want to pay for toys rather than paint.

[AshVX220]

White has been the fashionable colour for years now, why a car colour needs to be fashionable I've no idea, but hey we live in a world where even food items seem to go through trends so what do I know!

[wiliferus]

For a few years I’ve referred to it as ‘finance white’ most marques have white as a no cost option. If you see a German marque with a M-sport/AMG kits in white, guaranteed to be on finance.
And obviously after 2/3 years they hit the used market.
My other half loves white cars, I can’t abide them.

[mike74]

I thought it was referred to as '' Recession White''... Perhaps there's one finally on the way?

[MC Bodge]

I have a white car. I bought it used. The last one was white too.

I'm not really fussed what colour it is, to be honest. It is usually caked in mud and road dust.

[Griff74]

wiliferus said:

For a few years I’ve referred to it as ‘finance white’ most marques have white as a no cost option. If you see a German marque with a M-sport/AMG kits in white, guaranteed to be on finance.

Not anymore it isn't, they have got wise to this and now generally offer a dull solid blue or grey as the standard colour (VW wanted over 200 quid for a white, none metallic Polo GTi when I bought mine, solid red is the standard "free" colour for it. I went for the met blue as it wasn't really much more). On a none-GTi Polo a dull solid grey is the "free" colour.

[wiliferus]

Griff74 said:

wiliferus said:

For a few years I’ve referred to it as ‘finance white’ most marques have white as a no cost option. If you see a German marque with a M-sport/AMG kits in white, guaranteed to be on finance.

Not anymore it isn't, they have got wise to this and now generally offer a dull solid blue or grey as the standard colour (VW wanted over 200 quid for a white, none metallic Polo GTi when I bought mine, solid red is the standard "free" colour for it. I went for the met blue as it wasn't really much more). On a none-GTi Polo a dull solid grey is the "free" colour.

This is great news for the used car market in a few years time.

[Moonpie21]

I seem to recall Porsche started the whole resurgence of white with some release of a "new" car, might have been the first Cayman can't remember, but my that thing looked great and then it just got more and more popular with everyone getting a white car and manufacturers pushing variations of white it's all a bit much really.

So much so that when I look at cars I purposely don't want one in white, even then ones that look really good in it, no I will find another colour it suits. Daft right.

For me the colour of choice at the moment has to be paints like the Mercedes Emerald Green Metallic or my personal favourite Ruby Black Metallic, I just have so much want for that colour. I saw a Morgan Aero SuperSport in something similar once, just wow...

[Shifter1]

I'm neither a fan of white or black cars. Can't think of more impractical colours. Unless yellow if you live in Manhattan.